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Photo of a crying woman.

Poverty in the cities
One of the causes of poverty in India is the high population growth rate. See the photography by Kristian Bertel. Pseudo urbanization is a state when a city is unable to contain its populace in terms of providing livelihood, housing and infrastructure. This is mainly due to the vast and continuous immigration of the rural poor into urban areas. Immigration creates a shortage of resources in the cities. Urban poverty in India and other third world countries has resulted in the formation of large slums and shanty towns.

Life conditions.

The causes of poverty in India
The causes of poverty in India are its high population growth rate, agrarian form of economy, primitive agricultural practices, illiteracy, ignorance, unemployment, underemployment, caste based politics, urban rural divide, social iniquity and discrimination. One third of the Indian population has emerged from the squalor of poverty in recent year’s inspite of the above factors.
The images above belongs to a series of Indian photographs that are captured in two regions of India.

The issue of urban poverty in India can be best expressed with the
term pseudo urbanization.

New Delhi beggar.

See the slideshow press here

PHOTOGRAPHY: Issue on the Indian Poverty by Kristian Bertel